Gatling gun
Gatling gun Early
machine gun invented by Richard Gatling in 1862. It had several barrels mounted in a cylinder that was rotated manually by a crank so each barrel fired in turn.
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JAMES GATLING WAS FIRST TO TRY AND FIRST TO FAIL AT FLIGHT.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/11/2001; 700+ words
; ...lie with James Henry Gatling, a Carolina boy. Gatling...one of six children of Jordan and Mary Barnes Gatling...boys, it seems that Richard, James Henry's younger...successful invention. Richard finish school at 15...While shopkeeping, Richard found time to tinker...
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The death of Richard Gatling: February 26th, 1903. (Months Past).(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...lived to the age of eighty-four and died in his bed. Richard Jordan Gaffing came from a well-to-do family of planters...American agriculture. The American Civil War turned Gatling from the ploughshare to the sword. In 1862 he patented...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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FADING TOWN RECALLS A FAMOUS SON.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/30/1999; 700+ words
; ...town's best-known residents, Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of one of the world...There's little to note that Gatling ever was here during the town...There's little to mark that Gatling ever was in White Cloud. Even...
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Rapid-fire death and devastation at the turn of a crank.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/29/2008; ; 700+ words
; MR. GATLING'S TERRIBLE MARVEL The Gun That Changed...Keller Viking. 294 pp. $25.95 The Gatling gun, invented during the Civil War...can infer from Keller: "For all of Richard Jordan Gatling's cool-headed technical finesse...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Gun to help play go with a bang.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 7/5/2003; 413 words
; ...have made, from scratch, a Gatling gun for a production of Richard III. Dean Asker, RSC spokesman...developed by American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling in 1862. "Historically...Richmond, in opposition to Richard's tyrannical reign. Richard...
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History by design:
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 8/27/1999; ; 691 words
; ...design submitted by physician Richard Jordan Gatling for a rapid-fire artillery weapon...known around the world as the Gatling gun?Both drawings are on display...Pawtucket, R.I. In addition to Gatling's 10-barrel weapon that fired...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/26/1994; 700+ words
; ...1834; Frederick Tennyson, poet, 1898; Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun, 1903; Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poire...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, 1807; Richard Garnett, librarian, 1835; Dame Ellen Alicia...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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THEME FOR THE DAY.(National)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 2/26/2000; 700+ words
; ...Buffalo Bill") Cody; 1903: Death of American Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun; 1952: Winston Churchill announced that...3366. Fax: 0121 625 1105 THEME FOR THE DAY Richard Guy Andrew Jones Dawn Sweeney Newspaper Sales...
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MURFREESBORO'S RISE IS A SURPRISE OFFICIALS SAY RETIREES ARE REASON FOR INCREASE IN MEDIAN INCOME.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 6/15/2002; 700+ words
; ...Murfree donated 97 acres for the town. It was named Murfreesboro for him. The town was the home of Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling Gun. Chowan College was founded in 1848. James Morgan, builder of a home in Murfreesboro in the...
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Doctors were vital part of settling Kansas Territory
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 4/9/1999; ; 656 words
; ...became the state's first elected governor; Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, one of the founders of White Cloud in Doniphan County and later inventor of the Gatling gun -- first successful quick-firing weapon and...
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Richard Jordan Gatling
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Richard Jordan Gatling Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903...multiple-firing guns. Richard Gatling was born on...was uninterested in Gatling's gun, so it was...used some, and three Gatlings guarded the New York...
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Thompson Submachine Gun
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...early models are the well-known Gatling gun, used prominently in the...History The gun invented by Richard Jordan Gatling in 1862 was the first widely used...of the machine gun type. The Gatling gun was not strictly a machine...
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